CVE-2008-7020

medium

Description

McAfee SafeBoot Device Encryption 4 build 4750 and earlier stores pre-boot authentication passwords in the BIOS Keyboard buffer and does not clear this buffer after use, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information by reading the physical memory locations associated with this buffer.

References

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45275

http://www.ivizsecurity.com/security-advisory-iviz-sr-08010.html

http://www.ivizsecurity.com/research/preboot/preboot_whitepaper.pdf

http://secunia.com/advisories/31903

http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2008/Sep/0378.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2009-08-21

Updated: 2026-04-23

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 2.1

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Severity: Low

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00035